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Re:GitLab Web IDE by jakecodes on Friday June 15, 2018 @06:17PM (#17324095)
Hey there. I'm the developer who made the POC. My original idea came after watching non-technical people try to make changes to the readme. They would have to ask for a lot of help to get the terminal open or use a GUI. When really all they wanted to do was make a quick change.

The idea is that there's a lot of different users using git and I want to make it accessible for everyone.

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Re:GitLab Web IDE by mch82 on Saturday June 16, 2018 @01:50AM (#17326081)
Does anyone test the GitLab Web IDE on an iPad?

I was able to use Web IDE to edit a couple files including a `.gitlab-ci.yml` and kick off a continuous integration job from my iPad 6th Gen. I hit a snag with the Merge Request, but the commit worked okay. For now it would be a little cumbersome to rely on as a primary development workflow, but it's fun as a proof of concept.

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Re:GitLab Web IDE by chiefalchemist on Friday June 15, 2018 @10:07PM (#17325381)
If you can pull that off sainthood might be in your future :) looking forward to seeing this happen.
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Re:GitLab Web IDE by cup-of-tea on Saturday June 16, 2018 @03:52AM (#17326484)
Why do you want non-technical people to be able to edit the readme? That's for programmers to communicate to programmers. A little knowledge is dangerous. Keep non-technicals away from git.
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Re:GitLab Web IDE by majkinetor on Saturday June 16, 2018 @08:28AM (#17327144)
My businesses function regularly edits md files.
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Re:GitLab Web IDE by shadowmint on Saturday June 16, 2018 @05:04AM (#17326660)
That’s a strange thing to say given what you’ve made is significantly more full featured than necessary for that use case.
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